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49ers-Vikings game puts Iowa pals George Kittle and T.J. Hockenson on prime-time stage 10/22/2023 12:31pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The starting offense for the San Francisco 49ers offense was cycling through the narrated intros during a recent nationally televised game, when a mischievous-looking face popped up on NBC's broadcast for his turn at telling the 26 million viewers where he learned his craft. ��� Why some members of Black sororities and fraternities don���t want you to wear their letters 10/22/2023 05:56am • (CNN) ��� A Nashville teacher made headlines this month for removing a White elementary student���s shirt because it was emblazoned with the letters of her historically Black sorority. A spokesperson for Metro Nashville Public Schools told CNN the sorority shirt violated McGavock Elementary Schoo Third-string QB Santino Marucci throws late TD pass as Wake Forest tops Pittsburgh 21-17 10/21/2023 08:25pm • WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) ��� After a forgettable past month for Wake Forest, there was sudden change in the final seconds Saturday. Third-string quarterback Santino Marucci threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Cameron Hite with 7 seconds remaining to cap a dizzying turn of events in a 21-17 win over Pi The Hollywood actors strike hits 100 days. Why hasn't a deal been reached and what's next? 10/21/2023 06:20pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� While screenwriters are busy back at work, film and TV actors remain on picket lines, with the longest strike in their history hitting the 100-day mark Saturday after talks broke off with studios. On the same day, the actors' union and an alliance representing major studios anno Company bosses and workers grapple with the fallout of speaking up about the Israel-Hamas war 10/21/2023 02:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Starbucks accused a union representing thousands of its baristas of damaging the brand and endangering co-workers with a pro-Palestinian tweet. The CEO of a prominent tech conference resigned amid backlash for his public statements suggesting that Israel was committing war crimes. 5 dead and 5 injured -- names on a scrap of paper show impact of Gaza war on a US family 10/21/2023 11:24am • BLAINE, Minn. (AP) ��� In blue ink on a scrap of white paper that sits on his desk, Jehad Adwan scribbles the names and ages of his wife's relatives. Next to five names, he writes ���killed��� or simply, ���K." Beside another five, he marks ���injured��� or ���I." With every news report, social me Child care unaffordable for most Va. families with young children, state report says 10/21/2023 11:15am • Child care is unaffordable for the majority of Virginia families with young children, and nearly all of the state's low-income families with young children, according to a new report by the state's oversight agency of the Virginia General Assembly. The Oct. 16 report by the Joint Legislative Audi How an app is helping Alexandria address absenteeism 10/21/2023 12:01am • Alexandria City Public Schools is using an app to notify parents in the Virginia school system when their students aren���t in class. The app, called ParentSquare, sends families three notifications a day if their student is absent. Seventy percent of families have a registered ParentSquare accou How Fairfax Co. is redefining what school lunch looks like 10/20/2023 09:00pm • On Friday afternoon in the Braddock Elementary School cafeteria, Reva Smith looked on as dozens of students swarmed toward the line to get a slice of pizza. Fridays are pizza days on the Annandale, Virginia, campus, but Smith, the cafeteria manager, made sure to motivate students to explore the s Oklahoma attorney general sues to stop US's first public religious school 10/20/2023 06:36pm • Oklahoma's Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond on Friday sued to stop a state board from establishing and funding what would be the nation's first religious public charter school after the board ignored Drummond's warning that it would violate both the state and U.S. constitutions. Drummond Ohio embraced the 'science of reading.' Now a popular reading program is suing 10/20/2023 05:31pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� The battle over how to teach reading has landed in court. With momentum shifting in favor of research-backed strategies known as the ���science of reading,��� states and some school districts have been ditching once popular programs amid concerns that they aren���t effective Youth football team suspended after parent allegedly shoots coach in front of kids 10/20/2023 04:00pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� St. Louis suspended a youth football team whose coach was shot in front of the players allegedly by an upset parent, according to a statement provided to The Associated Press on Friday. ���After a series of incidents perpetuated by adults which culminated in Tuesday���s shooting, US judge unseals plea agreement of key defendant in a federal terrorism and kidnapping case 10/20/2023 03:32pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� A U.S. district judge has unsealed a plea agreement for one of the key defendants in a terrorism and kidnapping case that stemmed from a cross-country search for a missing toddler that ended with a 2018 raid on a squalid compound in northern New Mexico. The documents were What's streaming now: The Rolling Stones, John le Carr��, 'Living for the Dead' and Harry Bosch 10/20/2023 02:02pm • A fresh Rolling Stones album, a revealing documentary on spy novelist John le Carr�� and ���Living for the Dead,��� a new Hulu series that���s like ���Queer Eye��� meets ���Ghost Hunters��� are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you Among the offerings worth DIARY: Under siege by Hamas militants, a hometown and the lives within it are scarred forever 10/20/2023 02:00pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� There���s a saying among us videojournalists: May the news stay far from your home. But on Saturday, Oct. 7, it came terrifyingly close to my hometown. While I live in Jerusalem, where I work as a cameraman for The Associated Press, I was raised in Ofakim, a city a half-hour drive